I think this is okay here 'cuz it's a discussion on 'writing' and I think that's integral to XWF.

I was having a skype conversation and got on this roll about what 'art' and literature are to me, as a writer.

I'll paste that here but I'd like to see what you guys sorta think on the subject...

ahluniak does that, oddly.
[7:48:58 PM] Cyren: Writer of Fightclub.
[7:49:06 PM] Cyren: He's one of my favorite authors, has been since childhood.
[7:49:26 PM] Cyren: Reportedly, at times when he does readings, people have supposedly 'puked' they were so respulsed.
[7:49:32 PM] Cyren: That's a kind of vibe, I'd be aiming for.
[7:49:40 PM] Cyren: Make someone feel 'dirty' afterfinishing the rea.
[7:49:42 PM] Cyren: *rad.
[7:49:58 PM] Cyren: As if they were 'infected' by thoughts they would never have dreamed to dare to have before.
[7:50:43 PM] Cyren: When you have someone finish a read and they say, 'I'd never had that thought process before... or I felt things internally, questioned things I'd never thought an issue...' - that's the hallmark of a legendary writer.
[7:51:15 PM] Cyren: To introduce, as impossible a prospect as it may be, thoughts and environments, no one has dreamt up before or at least publiscized.
[7:51:41 PM] Cyren: 'Breaking Ground' in new literary territory - that's legend. That's fame, that's greatness, that's entertainment.
[7:52:01 PM] Cyren: In lieu of startling invention a perversion of the mundane can be an adequate substitute.
[7:52:42 PM] Cyren: I guess, my aim, with Scelestus - is to take a look at literary and social boundaries, stae them in the face and then rip them apart, simply because I'm a contrarian.
[7:52:52 PM] Cyren: If you tlel me to go this route, I'm gonna go the other.
[7:53:38 PM] Cyren: There's a formula to that kind of insanity - it's a mixture of rebellion and curiosity embellished by arrogance and fearlessness.
[7:54:26 PM] Cyren: In art, that would have been someone like a Van Gogh. In writing, it's something like an e.e. cummings or a Pahluniak. In film, David Fincher or Daren Aronofsky(sic?), are good examples.
[7:55:14 PM] Cyren: I like seeing things done in startling and inventive new ways - probably an aspect of my hyper-active mind, I know. I just like to see things that don't simply think outside of the box... they take the box, hold it up high and punt it way down the street where it gets chewed up in a woodchipper.
[7:55:42 PM] Cyren: Ambitious projects, things like Cloud Atlas as a film, for an example, are good efforts at that.
[7:55:49 PM] Cyren: At ground-breaking storytelling and entertainment.
[7:56:03 PM] Cyren: I feel like, society should try EVERYTHING before it can declare it knows something about ANYTHING.
[7:56:24 PM] Cyren: It's a sort of 'relatavistic thought' model.
Ben